2,642 words

Margaret Tafoya and the Santa Clara Pueblo pottery tradition

The artist Margaret Tafoya was born on August 13, 1904, in Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. Tafoya was noted as a potter, and for her unique approach to pottery. Tafoya only made hand-coiled vessels, and she only used one medium: clay dug from deposits on the Santa Clara land.

~14 min read

View paper →

3,405 words

Marketing challenges of going green in the U.S. automobile industry

The automotive industry is one of the most competitive in the world and the U.S. automotive industry is leading the way in terms of sales.

~18 min read

View paper →

806 words

Language diversity and critical thinking in nursing care communication

Working in a hospital is often extremely rewarding but just as often, it can be frustrating and depressing, depending on specific occurrences and interactions with patients, coworkers, and hospital administrators.

~5 min read

View paper →

12,916 words

Training needs assessment for the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department

Area Police Force? What Training Modules Can be Used to Enhance Relations between Surrounding Communities and the District of Columbia Metropolitan Area Police

~65 min read

View paper →

3,038 words

PTSD in Hispanic-American soldiers: cultural perspectives and treatment needs

Introduction el Movimiento," is the Spanish word that describes the movement of the 1970s.

~16 min read

View paper →

1,623 words

Stress and coping mechanisms among international university students

There are as many areas of stress and time pressures in the world as there are areas of study, and there have been a wide variety of studies conducted on the effects of stress and how human beings handle such effects.

~9 min read

View paper →

3,140 words

Evaluating school safety and security plan effectiveness in America

Scarcely a month goes by in the United States today without a headline reporting the latest school shootings.

~16 min read

View paper →

6,977 words

Vocational education and high school dropout rate prevention

"I'm dropping out of high school...." Unfortunately, this quote, which relates to the introductory citation by Gray, occurs too frequently in high schools.

~35 min read

View paper →

876 words

The effects of illegal drug use and trafficking on society

Drug use and trafficking are both extremely harmful to society, but most of those harms are either direct or indirect consequences of their illegal status.

~5 min read

View paper →

1,198 words

The subjective nature of reality and social constructs

Human beings are the product of their experiences. While this is equally true of all biological organisms, the fundamental difference between the human mind and other higher forms of biological life is that humans are unique in their capacity to think about their lives (Gerrig & Zimbardo 2005).

~6 min read

View paper →